Legal Planet

JULY 28, 2022

billion to help communities deal with risks from heat waves, sea-level rise, and flooding. He did not, of course, mention the word climate change. There’s always been concern that talking about climate adaptation might mislead people into thinking that cutting carbon emissions isn’t urgent.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 13, 2022

In terms of climate policy, however, it doesn’t get nearly as much attention as China. That’s understandable in terms of India’s current carbon emissions, which are now only a quarter of China’s. But given the growth of the economy, carbon emissions were projected to continuing growing steadily through 2030.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

At the evening seafood reception that year, in a corner near the fresh oysters, a board member of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association remarked to me, “Everyone blames everything on climate change, but they blame the Right Whale on lobstering.” His remark has remained with me ever since. Sea levels are rising.

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Washington Nature

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

As the climate changes, so should we. Record-setting heatwaves, devastating flooding, and more severe and frequent wildfires have shown us that climate change is at our doorstep. For instance, transportation accounts for 40 percent of Washington state greenhouse gas emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Extreme weather, which is increasing due to climate change , can degrade the electricity system and cause these failures. Climate change is increasing weather extremes and decreasing its predictability. Below are five types of impacts on the distribution grid from increased extreme weather due to climate change.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

It was the first case in which the Court was confronted with the issue of climate change. In an opinion by Justice Stevens, the Court held that the threat of sea level rise gave a state government standing to bring the suit. This gave EPA the power to impose limits on carbon emissions by vehicles and industry.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Rising sea levels in Bangladesh are inundating farmland and contaminating water supplies. “My Al Jazeera reports that Khatun, the villager in Gabura, spends most of her income on medicines for skin diseases many residents suffer from due to water and land contamination from rising sea levels. IN RECENT WATER NEWS.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Total loss of the Greenland ice sheet, for example, would raise sea levels globally by more than 20 feet. They tallied 40 “interventions to slow down, halt, and reverse the effects of climate change in the Arctic and northern regions.” Arctic impacts are also linked to wider global harms.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 1, 2022

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading scientific authority on climate change. Every six or seven years, scientists from around the world organize into expert working groups and review thousands of the latest studies on climate change. What is the IPCC? Never miss an update.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 30, 2021

As extreme storms become more ubiquitous, Philadelphia is among numerous cities grappling with flooding issues against the backdrop of aging infrastructure, rising sea levels and more extreme precipitation events. Climate change compounds the issues already present in urban environments. more moisture.

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Environmental Progress

JUNE 29, 2020

On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years. Climate change is happening. I have been a climate activist for 20 years and an environmentalist for 30. Lire en français ici. Leer en español aquí. It’s just not the end of the world.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

As the impacts of climate change are felt more acutely with each passing year, new research suggests that the future costs of emitting CO2 today may be much higher than previously calculated. Effectively, SCC indicates what price society should be willing to pay now to avoid the future damage of today’s carbon emissions.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 3, 2016

. : If there is one thing the fossil fuel industry, the government, and climate change activists might agree on it is this: in the end it all comes down to money. However, it is vital that when the carbon checkbook is finally balanced, the social cost of carbon is not forgotten. Stranded Assets v. appeared first on.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 2, 2022

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report released this week details how future climate impacts are going to affect our society, and many of us may be wondering what the future holds. We need bold plans and execution at all levels of government to combat climate change. In the U.S.,

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 27, 2023

We’ve heard so much about the effects of climate change on our ocean. Carbon pollution from fossil fuel use and land development have heated the atmosphere and ocean, leading to sea level rise, stronger storms, fisheries’ moving poleward, and widespread loss of sea ice and glaciers.

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2023

The AMOC plays a crucial role in regulating global climate patterns and has a significant impact on weather conditions and sea levels along the Atlantic coastlines. Furthermore, sea levels along the coasts might rise due to the altered ocean circulation patterns, posing a threat to vulnerable coastal communities.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 7, 2022

The Future is : Gender Inclusion in Climate Crisis Solutions By Beckett McGowan , Juris Doctor Candidate (VLGS '23), Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 7, 2022 Climate Change is the great exasperator. 1) However, natural disasters are not the only thing exasperated by Climate Change.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Candidate in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University As we head into the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), issues surrounding the impact of climate change in the Caribbean are high on the agenda. So why is the Caribbean Community making such a big fuss?

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Environment Next

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

auto sector carbon emissions) was to address the less-direct causal chain between atmospheric greenhouse gases and sea level rise in Massachusetts. It did not apply to UPHE’s claims that tailpipe emissions harmed its members’ health. .

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Science Blogs

AUGUST 29, 2017

Now is the time to say it as loudly as possible: Harvey is what climate change looks like. More specifically, Harvey is what climate change looks like in a world that has decided, over and over, that it doesn’t want to take climate change seriously. Most of us won't turn into climate refugees, of course.

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

But since it became clear that human actions are damaging the environment and changing the climate, it has become much more prominent nationally and internationally with most government departments in most countries having responsibilities to mitigate or prepare for climate change scenario. The Human Impacts on Climate.

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Ivy Protocol

AUGUST 23, 2023

Enhanced rock weathering is not just a tool in the fight against climate change. It’s a big shift — from seeing these industries as part of the climate problem to looking at them as part of the solution. These massive operations can be key players in our battle against climate change. It is also common.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2023

Many of these disasters—including floods, storms, wildfires and droughts—were worsened by climate change. . Climate change is not the sole causative factor, of course. That’s why the long-waited climate bill that the U.S. Source: NOAA [link]. It’s an emergency !’ (You You can watch her powerful speech here ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

Two seasons in one The presidential primary season coincides with “ Danger Season ”—the period between May and October when the Northern Hemisphere experiences back-to-back extreme weather augmented by climate change. Candidates are crisscrossing New Hampshire amid climate-related and climate-boosted catastrophes.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. and non-U.S.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Acidification : Reducing the pH rating of a substance making it more acidic in nature, for example, increased carbon emissions lead to the oceans absorbing more of it, increasing acidification and damaging ecology such as coral bleaching. Climate change : The process by which the climate changes due to “forcings”.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed a set of new rules intended to create a consistent, comparable, and reliable source of information regarding climate change impacts and sustainability efforts to inform and protect investors while facilitating further innovation in this evolving area.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Fossil fuels are the root cause of climate change, of long-standing environmental injustices, and are also frequently connected to geopolitical strife and violent conflicts. These data are alarming—underscoring how far off track the world continues to be in cutting the heat-trapping emissions fueling climate change.

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Edouard Stenger

JULY 27, 2018

The author was an engineering professor at Cambridge and the Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change and was knighted by the Queen for his work. The book predicted the threat of rising sea levels and the need to reform fresh-water management strategies to combat droughts.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

It is difficult to implement a region-wide program to reduce carbon emissions from transportation fuels when only one state in the region is prepared to do so. . We’re not avoiding the cost associated with carbon in fuels by failing to implement TCI. It’s called an externality. That’s not a good long-term tradeoff.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 18, 2022

However, that cooperation masks the failure of federal and state governments, and the private sector, to work together to tackle climate change, which likely exacerbated the intensity and destructiveness of that storm. And even a slight rise in sea level makes the threat of a storm surge that more terrifying.

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Edouard Stenger

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Earlier this month, the scientists of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a report on limiting global warming to 1.5C. A 2C warming is the upper limit we should not reach as beyond that Mankind and life on Earth would face a very real risk of runaway climate change.

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 8, 2020

Kasprak misinterprets my inclusion of the fact that fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003 as my somehow challenging the severity of climate change, but I wasn’t, and indeed had made clear that it was a list of “some facts few people know” and not about climate change. The IPCC agrees.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

“Every day in the news, we see stories that should serve as red-flag warnings about the very real and present impacts of climate change,” Rep. Climate action is about accountability, resilience and innovation, and it’s also about hope,” said Sen. Climate action requires us to prioritize environmental justice,” said Rep.

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Washington Nature

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

More climate-resilient communities and ecosystems Healthier estuaries and other ecosystems are more resilient to climate-change-related extreme weather events like floods, king tides, drought and wildfire. Cantwell’s office. Cape Flattery is part of the traditional homelands of the Makah Tribe. Photo by Elise Eliot.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

But another major culprit is climate change, which has intensified the heat and drought that have always been factors in western North America. That climate change obviously didn’t just happen on its own. Ekwurzel was joined by Heede, then-UCS climate scientist Peter Frumhoff , and four other scientists.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2024

If implemented, “Project 2025” would make addressing issues like climate change—which touches practically every aspect of our lives and is an urgent, collective global challenge—practically impossible. The preponderance of its climate-change research should be disbanded.’

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